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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ADIT, n. [L. aditus, from adeo, aditum, to approach, ad and eo, to go.]
An entrance or passage; a term in mining, used to denote the opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away. It is usually made in the side of a hill. The word is sometimes used for aid-shaft, but not with strict propriety.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin aditus approach, from adire to go to, from ad- + ire to go — more at issue Date: 1602 a nearly horizontal passage from the surface in a mine

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a horizontal entrance or passage in a mine. 2 a means of approach. Etymology: L aditus (as AD-, itus f. ire it- go)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Adit Ad"it, n. [L. aditus, fr. adire, ?aitum, to go to; ad + ire to go.] 1. An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel. 2. Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. --Tennyson.

Moby Thesaurus

access, admission, admittance, air lock, approach, channel, conduit, corridor, course, ditch, duct, egress, entrance, entranceway, entree, entry, entryway, exit, gangplank, gangway, hall, in, ingress, inlet, intake, means of access, opening, passage, passageway, trench, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, vestibule, way, way in